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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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August 24, 2005
United States
Are we ignoring the United States’ strengths?
Anantha Nageswaran of Libran Asset Management in Singapore has submitted a set of (lengthy) comments that respond, in some sense, to many of the points I and others have raised on this blog. Check …
April 17, 2006
Monetary Policy
Treading water (the February TIC data and ongoing central bank financing of the US)
The world bought $87b more of US long-term debt and equity than the US bought of foreign debt and equity. The net inflow exceeded expectations - there were some concerns that TIC inflow wouldn't b…
December 8, 2006
Monetary Policy
Bretton Woods 2: On its last legs? Or still going strong at the end of 2006?
Or perhaps a complicated combination of both? That is a question that has popped up over at Martin Wolf’s forum. It is a keyquestion for the global economy, and for financial markets.Those bettin…
December 13, 2007
United States
Richard Iley on the US current account deficit
Richard IleyBrad Setser: Richard Iley of BNP Paribas – the author, with Mervyn Lewis, of a new book on the US current account deficit --- doesn’t see the world quite the way I do. I put a l…
August 17, 2008
Financial Markets
Nouriel Roubini gets a medal ...
A well-deserved one too. Nouriel stuck to his core views -- housing was massively over-valued, the financial system was heavily exposed to a fall in home prices and the fall out from a fall in US…